Tack-puller



(N0 Model.)-

N.B.KEYES.'

TACK FULLER- No. 468,564. Patented Feb. 9, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

NELSON B. KEYES, or UNlONV'lLLE, CONNECTICUT.

. TACK-PtlLLER.

, s'rncrrroarion forming part of Letters Patent at. 468,564, dated. February 9, 1892. i

* Application filed August 24, 1891. semi No. 403,544. fNomorlel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NELSON B. KEYES, of Unionville, in the county (if-Hartford and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Ilnprovement in Tack-Pullers; and Ido' hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and-the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in Figure 1, a perspectiveview of a tack-puller constructed in accordance with my inventionwith the upper end of its handle broken away;

Fig. 2, a plan view of the blank from which the folded body of the ins'trhmentis formed and Fig. 3, detached View, in side elevation, of the pivotaljawof the tool.

My invention relates to an improvement in tack-pullers, the object being to produce from sheet metal a cheap, strong, durable, and convenient instrumen Vith these ends in view my invention consists in the combination, with a folded sheetmetal body having parallel sides and constructed at its outer end to form a jaw and having an oblong opening formed in its folded edgeat a point near the said jaw, of a jaw hung between the sides of the'said body, passing through the opening therein and having a long curved tail forming a fulcrum. As

herein shown, the folded sl1eet-metal body of the tool has parallel sides and is constructed at its outer end'to form a jaw A, while its opposite end is shaped to form a shank B, which is inserted into a suitable handle 0. An oblong opening (3 is formed in thefolded edge bending the sheet-metal of the said body, in line therewith, at a point near the jaw thereofl Oppositethis'opening the'edges'of the body are widened to form 'ears DD, injwhich aligned perforations D D are formed; The blank from which the body is made is shown by Fig.2 of the drawings ready for folding? A; sheet metal jaw E, formed from a suitable blank of heavy sheet metal and constructedlwith a'perforation F and with a long curved tail E, which forms a fulcrum in the operation of the device, is hung between thesides of the body on a pin F, passing through its perforationFand the perforations D D 'of the body and passes through the-opening 0 thereof' The said jaw E and its tail E arein this way 'hung between the sides of the 'body, with which they-form substantially "a right angle. By. body, as" described,

it is "inadewery stiff.

Having fully described my. invention, What "I claim as new,-

ters Patent, i'sv 3 In a tack-puller, "the coinbiiiationfwith a folded sheet-metal body having parallel sides and constructed at its outer end to form a jaw and having an openingformed in its folded edge at a point near the said jaw, of a jaw hung between the sidesof the-said body,

ing a long curved tail forminga fulcrum, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 7 I

NELSON l3. KEYES. Witnesses: F i

- CHARLES C. GEORGIA, CLARAM. GEORGIA.

nd desire to-secnre by Letv passing through'th'e opening therein and hav- 

